Sunday | December 10, 2023 | 3 pm
Musicians from The New York Philharmonic VANHAL – Trio, La Chasse (Arr. C. White) DOHNÁNYI – Piano Quintet No.…
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | December 11, 2023 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring tenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Maxim Lando Explore songs by Prix de Rome winning composer Lili Boulanger; her legendary sister, the French composer, conductor and educator Nadia Boulanger, and Nadia’s incredible roster of students…
(vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Tuesday | December 12, 2023 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR – Piano Trio in E minor ERNÖ DOHNÁNYI – Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 GIACOMO PUCCINI – Crisantemi for string quartet FLORENCE PRICE – Piano Quintet in A minor Hailed…
(classical, season-highlights)
Friday | December 15, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Join us for an inspirational evening at Amine Hachem’s Christmas extravaganza! This musical journey is inspired by Hachem’s life in Lebanon, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Hachem's unique Franco-Arabic perspective infuses beloved Christmas classics with Opera, Jazz,…
Saturday | December 16, 2023 | 7:30 pm
It's time again for a yearly tradition. Singer/songwriter David Ippolito “That Guitar Man from Central Park” shares a much needed night of music and laughs, stories, thoughts and feelings… with all the usual suspects: George Wurzbach, Teresa Reynolds, Chris Tedesco, Dan…
Sunday | January 14, 2024 | 3 pm
Musicians from The New York Philharmonic E. GOOSSENS – Pastorale et Arlequinade FOSS – Time Cycle SCHUBERT – Octet…
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | January 16, 2024 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Patrice Sciortino and Sergei Prokofiev Winner of the 2021 New Orleans International Piano Competition, pianist Elia Cecino won the first prize at the international competitions “James Mottram” in Manchester (England) and…
(classical, season-highlights)
Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Angélica Negrón Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón writes “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR) music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys and electronics as well as for chamber…
(new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Tuesday | January 23, 2024 | 7:30 pm
MUSICIANS ON THE RISE Reflections Vision Duo (violinist Ariel Horowitz and percussionist Britton-René Collins) and Chromic Duo (toy pianists and multimedia artists Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan) explore our experience of time in three musical chapters centering past, future and present.…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Sunday | February 4, 2024 | 3 pm
Musicians from The New York Philharmonic MOZART – Divertimento No. 11 in D Major, K.251 Ellen Taaffe ZWILICH – Piano Quintet …
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | February 6, 2024 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Tom Cipullo, Samuel Barber, Henri Duparc and Sergei Rachmaninoff Praised as being a “standout” with “star quality” by Opera News, Polish-American soprano Magdalena Kuźma is promptly establishing a name for herself in both concert and…
(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by The Living Earth Show The Living Earth Show’s Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson – “outstanding” (San Francisco Chronicle), “transcendent” (Charleston City Paper) and “performers to watch” (The Washington Post) – give…
(new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Sunday | February 11, 2024 | 11 am
BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE Introduce kids to the writers of On the Town, Singin’ in the Rain, Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing and On The Twentieth Century. Sean Hartley and the beloved Broadway Playhouse cast sing, clown and introduce children to the great writers of American musical theater.…
(musical-theater, family, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Sunday | February 11, 2024 | 5:30 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Featuring rising star musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School, New York’s only K-12 public school prioritizing an intensive, immersive and musically-focused education without financial barriers, and Lucy Moses School, Manhattan’s largest…
(classical, family, season-highlights)
Thursday | February 15, 2024 | 1 pm
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER MASTERCLASSES This new series of public masterclasses features celebrated performers and educators coaching Kaufman Music Center students from our Lucy Moses School, a community arts school for all ages, and Special Music School, New York’s only…
(classical, new-music, family)
Friday | February 16, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PIANO DIALOGUES Pianist Awadagin Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involving performances in recital and with symphony orchestras. The winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and an Avery Fisher Prize, he’ll perform music by Franz Liszt, Pēteris…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Wednesday | February 21, 2024 | 8 pm
A collaboration with Young Concert Artists The program travels through six centuries of vocal ensembles, from the Renaissance to the present day with music by W.A. Mozart, Emmanuel Chabrier, Libby Larsen, the Bobs and many others. Featuring tenor Daniel McGrew, mezzo-sopranos Megan Moore…
(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Sunday | February 25, 2024 | 3 pm
PARLANDO AIDA SHIRAZI – Umbra DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 14 Irina Rindzuner, soprano Mikhail Svetlov, bass-baritone How can music grab on to something as it slips away? Join Parlando as it explores how music captures…
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | February 26, 2024 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring pianist Adam Golka Hear Mussorgsky’s most famous piece as it was originally written – for solo piano rather than the orchestral version most of us know – and see projections of some of the actual pictures that inspired the…
(classical, season-highlights)
Saturday | March 2, 2024 | 7:30 pm
The “imagination-grabbing” and “trailblazing” (WQXR) self-conducted string orchestra A Far Cry, 2023-24 Kaufman Music Center Artists-in-Residence, perform works by Ernst Bloch, plus NYC premieres by Jungyoon Wie and Errollyn Wallen Tickets ($30) go on sale soon.
(new-music, season-highlights)